Spring Season Highlights

Join us every second Thursday of the month to flex your creative muscles with a different artistic activity every time, have a drink and meet new friends.

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This full day taster workshop will give you a chance to try your hand at both pointed nib and brush lettering, so that you can explore the various effects that can be achieved with each and see which you enjoy the most.

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Artist Claire Murthy will guide you in drawing our feathered friends in a workshop inspired by Gilbert White’s beautiful illustrations of birds on display in the Print Room.

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Spend your weekend crafting a series of small handmade books, learning and experimenting with a range of different materials and techniques.

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Using Barnett Freedman’s decorative lettering as a starting point, renowned graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge illustrates the history and power of beautifully designed typography and lettering.

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A day for exploring different aspects of mindfulness practice, using art engagement to look into mindfulness of body, emotions and thought.

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Painter Celia Paul explores what it has meant to establish herself as a female artist in her own right and step out from the shadow of being Lucien Freud’s muse.

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Four days of stimulating and creative studio time, drawing inspiration from our rarely seen archive, collections and spring exhibitions.

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War art encompasses far more than battle scenes. This short course focuses on the British war art scheme and the role of the War Artists’ Advisory Committee from 1939-45 in selecting some of the leading artists of day to record the war in all its aspects for posterity.

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